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Speaking of brazen blogwhoring and attention sluttery, the kind people at League O' Ordinary Dudes saw fit to publish a submission of mine for their "Dystopia Week" (http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/2017/01/11/february-20-2088/).

Being the reflexively positive, carefree animal I am, filled with hope for tomorrow -- no way I could resist a topic like that.

Is there really any hope for truth and justice in this decadent time? Does America even have the capacity to be honest about itself and come to terms with its self-destructive addiction to money-worship and cowardly xenophobia? Ralph Waldo Emerson and Herman Melville – the two great public intellectuals of 19th-century America – wrestled with similar questions and reached the same conclusion as Heraclitus: character is destiny (“sow a character and you reap a destiny”).